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“Drifters” japanese TV opening is animated by french artist Cedric Herole (aka Bambin) who is also the animator of Catsuka TV show ending.

Turns out, people who want to eat fast-food deer meat really want to it eat — to the point where they’ll line up at Arby’s for a venison burger at 9 a.m. The chain’s new stunt sandwich has proven wildly popular, Nation’s Restaurant News reports, with...More »

One picture, taken in the New York woods, restored the candidate to ordinary life. If Democrats had listened to ordinary Americans, she might have been president

The black mood of women feeling battered and bereft after Hillary Clinton’s loss was suddenly pierced on Thursday by an image that brought the tears all over again.

Related: 'We are witnessing the politics of humiliation' – Siri Hustvedt, Joyce Carol Oates and more on the US election

Most tech industry leaders railed against the Republican, but some are now changing their tune as they consider what his presidency will mean

In the end, it took less than 24 hours for Silicon Valley to start making nice with President-elect Donald Trump.

For a full year, the tech industry had collectively railed against the xenophobic, bigoted, and anti-science tenor of candidate Trump, displaying a political consensus so strong that the only public outlier – PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel – became the target of a shunning campaign from industry insiders. Even the generally apolitical Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuked Trump and his supporters’ “fearful voices talking about building walls”.

Italy’s hedgehog hospital, starlings in flight and a comical fox are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

‘Surprise’ decision hailed as governor’s spokesman says state attorneys are reviewing order, with officials saying door-to-door delivery would cost $9m

Residents of Flint, Michigan, who are facing the risk of lead contamination in their water are entitled to water bottle delivery to their home, a federal judge ruled this week.

David Lawson, a US district judge, said in a preliminary injunction that officials must deliver each week four cases of bottled water per resident to Flint households that don’t have properly installed taps.

This weekend, perennially popular food bazaar Smorgasburg will make its annual pilgrimage indoors. It’s returning alongside sister market Brooklyn Flea to Downtown Brooklyn’s Skylight One Hanson, where 75 Flea and 25 Smorgasburg vendors will set up shop from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Saturday and...More »

The better-burger champs at Shake Shack have apparently been too busy killing it lately to notice the whole industry’s careening toward a bleak recession. The chain released quarterly earnings yesterday, and while most of the competition is reeling...More »

So many pies, so little time

Pie is a great dessert because it offers more variety than maybe any other baked good — there is a type of pie for everyone: fluffy cream pie, dense custard pie, tart lemon meringue, nutty pecan, or not-too-sweet, good old-fashioned fruit pie. And of course, there's no shortage of any of these types of pie in New York City.

So here are 12 of the city's essential versions from some of its best pie purveyors. Whether it's a cream, fruit, or meringue craving, the slices below will happily satisfy.

Bakeries are listed geographically: south to north through Manhattan, and north to south through Brooklyn.

We look at the top contenders in this year's Oscar race for best animated short.

The post 2017 Animated Short Oscar Contenders: A Record Number of Films Are Competing appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

This Electoral College tracking map suggests that there may be some potential trouble for the Republican Party soon enough.

Mic shared a new interactive map from SurveyMonkey of MAKER Hillary Clinton ahead, not just overall in Electoral College projections, but with an overwhelming advantage among millennial voters.

The map shows how Clinton controls the younger vote, which is based on more than 30,000 interviews conducted since October 8th and weighted by state-level voter demographics.

For election 2016, 69 million millennials are eligible to vote, but a total of 270 Electoral College votes are required to capture the presidency.

Mic also reports the SurveyMonkey data will be updated daily through the November election because the new younger voters remains to be seen.

NEXT: How Far We've Come: Voting Over Time »

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• Here's What Happened When I Volunteered to Register Voters
• The Presidential Debate's Biggest Moments, According to Millennial Women (And One Guy!)

Photo Credit: Getty Images

Ongoing Investigations: Miss Hokusai from Production I.G.

Song: Cover of “You Say Run” from My Hero Academia performed by iconiQuestra

Food for Thought: What is your favorite Edo period anime or manga?

Topics: New York Comic Con 2016

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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

Wonder Woman

• 2 oz. Midori melon liqueur
• 2 oz. Peach schnapps
• 3 oz. Orange juice
• 1 oz. Pineapple juice
• 2 oz. Cranberry juice

Fill hurricane glass with ice. Add ingredients in order listed. Don’t stir! Should have three layers; green, orange, and red. Garnish with a cherry.

It's for only 2 days, but hand-drawn Looney Tunes are headed back to the bigscreen!

The post ‘Space Jam’ Is Returning to Theaters For Its 20th Anniversary appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

In the near future, humans will laugh about their poor ancestors who had no choice but to eat with basic, outdated cutlery that couldn’t manipulate the flavor of their food. That will be thanks to a group of scientists at the University of London, who are developing a device that...More »

At Warner Bros’ global fan event for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them today, the studio made a big announcement: There will be five Fantastic Beasts films total, instead of the trilogy, as originally thought.

The Mary Sue and HitFix provided live updates, rounding up a couple of key points about the growing movie franchise:

• Albus Dumbledore “features a little bit in a wonderful scene” between Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), according to director David Yates.
• Gellert Grindelwald, Dumbledore’s former friend (and object of his affection) turned dark wizard, will have a bigger part in these movies than previously expected: He’s “sort of in the background [of Fantastic Beasts],” Yates says, “and he’s going to become a much more prominent part of the stories going forward.”
• After Newt Scamander presumably finds at least some of the fantastic beasts in the first movie, his journeys will take him to other capital cities. More from Yates: “We next see Newt in another big capitol city and it’s not going to be New York, it’s somewhere else entirely,” he said. “And Jo has actually written the script and it’s just as magical and just as marvelous as the first one, but very different, which is so exciting for all of us.”

Amid rumors that there would be “at least” five films, Rowling confirmed on Twitter that they’re stopping at five:

Not ‘at least.’ Five. Five movies. https://t.co/61YvDIKPsG

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 13, 2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in theaters November 18.

The screenwriter of "Inside Out" and "The Good Dinosaur" has a new job at Disney.

The post ‘Inside Out’ Writer Meg LeFauve Promoted To Director on Disney’s ‘Gigantic’ appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

Psychologist Carl Jung believed that many cultures across the globe produced similar myths due to a sort of unified subconscious, the idea that deep down in our collective psyche, we all embraced the same symbols in an effort to explain the world. But what if it were far more simple than that? What if these linked myths merely migrated along with the people who told them? One scientist has provided strong evidence to that tune, piecing together together a global mythic tapestry that is thousands of years in the making.

Over in Scientific American, doctoral candidate Julien d’Huy has used computer models and phylogenetic analysis to track the movement of mythic tales across cultures and continents, over thousands of years. d’Huy starts with the example of the classic “Cosmic Hunt” myth–a story where a person or persons track an animal into the forest, where the animal escapes by becoming one of the constellations in the sky–and explains that Jung’s idea of an intrinsic, embedded concept of specific myths and symbology doesn’t hold up across the board:

If that were the case, Cosmic Hunt stories would pop up everywhere. Instead they are nearly absent in Indonesia and New Guinea and very rare in Australia but present on both sides of the Bering Strait, which geologic and archaeological evidence indicates was above water between 28,000 and 13,000 B.C. The most credible working hypothesis is that Eurasian ancestors of the first Americans brought the family of myths with them.

This led d’Huy to create a phylogenetic model, more commonly used by biologists to track evolution, to create a myth tree that tracked the evolution of a single story. By the d’Huy had identified 47 versions of the story and 93 “mythemes” that cropped up throughout these various versions at different frequencies. Tracking these changes made it possible to hypothesize when certain groups migrated to different areas based on the introduction of new story mythemes and changes made to the tale. d’Huy’s model showed that “By and large, structures of mythical stories, which sometimes remain unchanged for thousands of years, closely parallel the history of large-scale human migratory movements.”

Other myths were also tested using this model, yielding fascinating results. The Pygmalion story, the Polyphemus myth, and tales of dragons and serpents all showed evidence of the migratory patterns of humanity dating back thousands of years. It is possible that these models will help future scholars to identify ancestral “protomyths,” or the base tales that many of our widespread myths herald from.

Read more about Julien d’Huy’s research over at Scientific American.